2023-08-19 16:37:37
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About 1,500 French soldiers on site
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A few days later, on the night of July 30 to 31, the authors of the coup had themselves accused France of wanting “to intervene militarily” to restore President Bazoum, in a press release read on national television, recalls The world. “France, with the complicity of some Nigeriens, held a meeting at the headquarters of the National Guard of Niger, to obtain the necessary political and military authorizations”said Amadou Abdramane, spokesman for the junta.
Mohamed Bazoum is still held back by the ruling junta. Western and African countries are increasing warnings of the deterioration of his conditions of detention and his state of health, while the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) threatens a military operation to restore the constitutional order.
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